Access to Insurance and Perceived Discrimination by Homosexual Men (Includes Executive Summary)

摘要

The purposes of this project were to examine the insurance experiences of a sample of gay and bisexual men and to examine the degree to which this sample has perceived discrimination from employers, doctors and dentists. Results suggest that although persons with AIDS are not significantly more likely to be uninsured than persons who do not have AIDS, they are thirty-six times as likely to have Medicaid coverage. Six percent of the sample has been screened for HIV by a health insurance company, 8% by a life insurance company and 7% by a disability company. Persons with AIDS were five times as likely to report HIV-related discrimination from employers as persons who do not have AIDS. Eighteen percent of persons with AIDS reported having been refused treatment by a doctor or dentist due to a known or suspected HIV-related condition, compared with 5% of seropositives and 1% of seronegatives.